No mention of the anti-gun gorilla in the room, Joe Straus.
Straus is the current Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. While nominally a Republican, he is in fact a liberal Democrat. He has been repeatedly elected speaker by a small cadre of Republicans loyal to him joining with *all* the Democrats to elect him.
He has repeatedly blocked gun liberty bills, by not not allowing them to be voted on by the entire house.
/johnny